They were changed in a matter
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:32 am
The submarine surfaced, the crew began to fight for the life of the ship. The radio turned out to be faulty and an SOS was sent through a weak emergency transmitter. A team of eight people was formed, all volunteers who understood that they were going to their death. They were 20-22 years old. A submariner is a profession for the young, a thirty-year-old has a hard time under water, and a forty-year-old cannot stay there, the conditions are not right. The repairmen were protected from radiation by chemical protection suits and gas masks, or rather, they were more of a psychological protection than a real one. of minutes, it took two attempts, after which the ventilation was restored, the threat of an explosion passed. But the boat was contaminated with radiation emitted by the faulty reactor through the ship's ventilation.
The crew of K-19 was rescued by two other Soviet submarines that responded to the SOS signal. The sailors went on board naked, leaving their contaminated uniforms on K-19 and after washing themselves with sea water to cleanse themselves of radionuclides. All eight members of the repair team died quite quickly; there was no chance of survival with 5,000-6,000 rem of radiation.
And the crews of the two rescue submarines investor database punished: they disobeyed orders and left their place in the underwater curtain against the American nuclear submarine. If they had not come to the rescue, there would have been many more corpses: the K-19 crew consisted of 149 people and all of them could have been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.
K-19 towed the ship to port, accompanied by destroyers.
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Continuing its service, K-19 added to the list of accidents
It took three years to repair and decontaminate the submarine, and in 1963 K-19 returned to service. The ship had already acquired a bad reputation, but you can’t write off a brand new submarine because it’s unlucky!
K-19 has begun to add to its sad list. As Igor Borovik, a naval historian and member of the Russian Military Historical Society, tells it, in 1972 a fire broke out on the submarine, taking the lives of 30 people (28 died on board and 2 died later).
Borovik claims that K-19 suffered unprecedented losses of crew in peacetime for the submarine fleet in accidents (not in the sinking of the vessel). Then there was another fire, local. Two collisions with American submarines. Fortunately, these incidents did not cause human casualties.
K-19 was decommissioned only in 1990. In the early 2000s, former crew members suggested setting up a submarine fleet museum on the ship, but the idea did not work out and Hiroshima was scrapped.
The crew of K-19 was rescued by two other Soviet submarines that responded to the SOS signal. The sailors went on board naked, leaving their contaminated uniforms on K-19 and after washing themselves with sea water to cleanse themselves of radionuclides. All eight members of the repair team died quite quickly; there was no chance of survival with 5,000-6,000 rem of radiation.
And the crews of the two rescue submarines investor database punished: they disobeyed orders and left their place in the underwater curtain against the American nuclear submarine. If they had not come to the rescue, there would have been many more corpses: the K-19 crew consisted of 149 people and all of them could have been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.
K-19 towed the ship to port, accompanied by destroyers.
.
Continuing its service, K-19 added to the list of accidents
It took three years to repair and decontaminate the submarine, and in 1963 K-19 returned to service. The ship had already acquired a bad reputation, but you can’t write off a brand new submarine because it’s unlucky!
K-19 has begun to add to its sad list. As Igor Borovik, a naval historian and member of the Russian Military Historical Society, tells it, in 1972 a fire broke out on the submarine, taking the lives of 30 people (28 died on board and 2 died later).
Borovik claims that K-19 suffered unprecedented losses of crew in peacetime for the submarine fleet in accidents (not in the sinking of the vessel). Then there was another fire, local. Two collisions with American submarines. Fortunately, these incidents did not cause human casualties.
K-19 was decommissioned only in 1990. In the early 2000s, former crew members suggested setting up a submarine fleet museum on the ship, but the idea did not work out and Hiroshima was scrapped.